The "before Hanukkah" period also came with dozens of types of donuts that came to our table for review • The big winner, the disappointment and the surprising absence from the list • For the full coverage
Hanukkah is already upon us, and more than the holiday itself, it seems that the "before" period, in which the confectioneries and bakeries showcase their spectacular donut collections, is much more intriguing.
As every year, this time too quite a few places have tried to go as far and strive as possible to launch the most special donut, which will both look good and taste great.
Tasting Hanukkah donuts 2020 // Photo: Gil Kramer
However, it seems that this year the places have gone a few steps forward, some would even say, too many steps forward.
Among the new donuts this year you can find an ice cream-shaped donut, a sausage-shaped donut, and more.
Quite a few praised these flavors and the creativity and thinking outside the box.
However, these flavors are far from the traditional flavors we are used to on Hanukkah.
The Roldin chain, for example, presents a variety of new flavors this year, including coffee amarettes and berry pavlova.
At Shani Confectionery we go in the corrupt direction with a savory pretzel donut topped with a savory pretzel cream coated in milk chocolate, a kinder donut and a folded triple.
Jacobs has launched "Sufnika", an elongated baked donut that looks like a bun, filled with raspberry ganache coated in milk chocolate on the sausage standard, vanilla diplomat cream on the mayonnaise standard, strawberry jam instead of ketchup and passion fruit coli instead of mustard.
On top of that, the popular cookie brand Lotus is collaborating for the first time with the Sicilian boutique ice cream parlor, resulting in a collection of donuts and desserts.
For example, a Lotus Coffee Donut is a donut filled with coffee cream and lotus coated in white chocolate ganache, topped with a scaled-down ice cream cup coated in lotus cookie crumbs.
Many tasters tasted a variety of donuts and rated each donut with scores from 1 to 10. Based on the results, we created the ranking of the best donuts for Hanukkah 2020. Happy holiday.
Many tasters tasted a variety of donuts and rated each donut from a score of 1-10.
Based on the results we have created the ranking of the best donuts for Hanukkah 2020. Happy holiday.
1st place - Dalal
Score:
8.5
Review:
Very tasty and interesting donuts, the dough is good and high quality.
We especially loved the Mr. White donut, a baked brioche with white icing, coconut, coconut snow and a classic vanilla patisserie cream.
Suitable for sweet lovers.
Price for Mr. White: 22 shekels.
2nd place - second confectionery
Score:
7.8
Review: The
donut is excellent and crunchy.
The alfalfa donut is very tasty and the pistachio donut is also very interesting.
The triple donut is deliciously folded, the snack fragments blend in great.
Price: 12 shekels
3rd place - Jacobs
Score:
7.25
Review: The
donut, the donut disguised as a hot dog, is very tasty and properly ceramic.
Surprisingly, the hallucinatory idea of a sausage-like donut in a bun was delicious.
This is a great fruity combination alongside a rather tasty "bun".
We loved thinking outside the box.
Donut price: 16 shekels.
4th place - Mickey his name
Score:
7
Review: The
donuts are very tasty.
The jam taste is classic and good, you can see that we did not skimp on the filling.
Price: 5 shekels.
5th place - Holy Coffee
Score:
6.9
Review: The
filling is high quality and the texture is good.
The marshmallow filling is delicious but there are those who thought it was unrelated.
The strawberry flavor is very successful and the coating is fun to eat.
Price: 18 shekels
6th place - Biscotti
Score:
6.8
Review: The
milk jam filling is excellent and the mango filling is very interesting.
Price: Milk jam: NIS 7, mango NIS 12.
7th place - Siciliana and Lotus
Score:
6.9
Review:
The collaboration between the two brands spawned products we enjoyed eating, like donuts filled with coffee cream and lotus, yet, they do not so much create a feeling of flavors that are appropriate for Hanukkah.
Price: 15 shekels.
8th place - Roldin
Score:
6.8
Review: The
vanilla filling with the strawberry glaze was very tasty and so was the dough.
The Oreo coating is not crunchy enough.
The donut with pistachio filling was a disappointment, as it had little filling.
Price: Milk jam: 7 shekels.
Special 12-14 shekels.
9th place - Mr. Donuts
Score:
6.7
Review: The donut is nice, too airy but definitely not bad.
Missing dough.
10th place: Central Boutique
Score:
6.3
Review:
Old School donut, the filling of the classic jam is delicious and close to childhood memories.
On top of that, it's not too sweet.
However, the donut itself is reasonable.
Price: 8 shekels.
